I have just last month run across a stack of Powerbooks for $10 each at a thrift store. While there were many Pre PowerPC. the were some PowerPC and even some G3 Powerbooks. Being limited to $25 I picked the best of the selection. A 400Mhz Lombard and a 500MHz Pismo. None of them had batteries or power-cords. anyways back to the main point.
I've been unable to get an internal drive to work in either of them. I could format and install 9.2 on a Wallstreet, but the new Powerbooks would not recognize the HD. I haven't gotten very far with the lombard, It will boot, and I can get into open-firmware, but I haven't gotten it to boot from a USB cd-rom drive. But I have been able to get the Pismo to boot from firewire hard drives and cd-rom drives without a problem. but it will crash whenever I try to format the internal drive OR try to view the IDE information in the System Profiler. How DO you tell if a hard drive is ATA 5 or 6? I tried several drives that simply don't work on the new G3's. even the one original to the Wallstreet II won't work in them. Or is it the IDE cables? I don't know which possibility to go for first or how to test for it. Unfortunately none of the hard drives have a convenient "ATA-5 Compatible" sticker. Thanks, Bucky --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
